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Introduction

ESXi 5 and 5.1: So you've turned on the SSH remote access at the host and now you're getting a warning on your host. “SSH for the host has been enabled”. I guess the “exclamation” mark on your host kind bugs you (and me!).

Now suppressing it is fairly simple. Go to your host, click the configuration tab, click “advanced settings”, go to UserVars” and scroll all the way down to “UserVars.SuppressShellWarning” change the value from 0 to 1. and you're done!